50+ Fun and Educational Apps from Fun4Kids

Fun4Kids is a developer of educational Android apps for children that are three to seven years old. Fun4Kids offers more than fifty apps for learning basic mathematics, reading, and spelling. While browsing through the gallery of Fun4Kids apps you will also find some memory games and puzzle games.

A couple of the Fun4Kids apps that I recommend starting out with are Kids Math and Preschool All Words. In Kids Math children learn to recognize numbers up to fifty through guided counting and a simple memory game. In Preschool All Words children practice spelling familiar three to five letter words. Despite the name “Preschool All Words” the app is actually better suited to children in first grade. These apps will give a good feel for the format of the Fun4Kids apps without spending money on any apps. If you decide that you like the apps then go ahead and buy the full version of the apps.

Google Play Books Update Includes a Read Aloud Feature

I really enjoy reading books on my Nexus 7 tablet. The tablet fits in one hand and I never lose my place in the books that I’m reading through Google Play Books. Today, I learned that the latest update to Google Play Books for Android includes a read aloud option.

To activate the read aloud option in Google Play Books just open the menu in the upper-right corner of the screen and select “read aloud.” To stop the read aloud voice just open the menu again and select “stop reading aloud.” The read aloud voice is quite robotic, but it is clear. I wouldn’t want to listen to an entire book through the Google Play Books read aloud feature. That said, if a student was reading a book on Google Play Books and needed help with the pronunciation of a word, the read aloud function could be helpful.

H/T to Android Authority.

Learn to Read – An Android App That Helps Kids Learn to Read

Learn to Read is a nice Android app that does exactly what its name indicates. On Learn to Read students are shown a word like “cat,” shown a couple of sentences that use the word, and then have to select that word from a word bank. Students can have the words and sentences read to them by clicking on the speaker on each screen.

Learn to Read is available to try as a free app before you buy the full version. The free version has three focus words. The paid version has sixteen focus words.

Apple Tree Books – Read, Listen, and Narrate Children’s Stories

Apple Tree Books is a company that offers more than thirty free children’s books to read, listen to, and narrate on your Android tablet. Each book can be read by students with or without narration turned on. Each book provides users with the option to record their own narration of the book. And if you just want to listen to a story, use the “bed time” mode on the story.

The option to record your own narration could provide a good way for students hear themselves reading.

SparkNotes on Android Devices

Whether we like it or not, students use SparkNotes. SparkNotes for Android puts many of the same content guides found on SparkNotes.com available in a mobile-friendly format. The app makes content guides available online and offline through download options. You can search for content guides according to subject and topic.

SparkNotes for Android has a social check-in option that students can use to find people near them that are also using the app. SparkNotes suggests that students could use the check-in option to create study groups at the spur of the moment.